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Next step: He plans to eventually work at CDL full time when the company grows into the $4 million-$5 million revenue range.

Craig Jablonski is making headway in two very different industries, trucking and health care.

Jablonski is president of CDL Marketing Group LLC in Royal Oak, a company he started with two friends in 2011. And he is director of practice development at Comprehensive Urology, a division of Michigan Healthcare Professionals PC, a growing urology practice of more than 50 doctors also based in Royal Oak.

Jablonski graduated in 2009 from Western Michigan University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and sought a career in the job-rich health care industry. He got one, handling sales in Michigan for Union, N.J.-based Plus Diagnostics, a prostate cancer screening lab.

A friend, Ben Onnie, had an itch to start a business in the trucking industry. Having worked for a trucking school, he saw the great demand trucking companies have for drivers and saw an opportunity in getting more students into schools through the Internet.

Jablonski provided funding for the new business, which charges truck driver training schools for each qualified applicant it sends their way.

Logistics companies locally and nationwide have been scrambling to hire qualified drivers as the country faces a shortage of 50,000 to 100,000 truck drivers, industry analysts have said.

The schools like Jablonski's service because it saves them time in finding candidates during a time of high demand in the industry. CDL Marketing has contracts with 30 schools in the country, Jablonski said.

Jablonski handles the business side of things, such as legal, finance and business development, while Onnie handles operations as vice president. Tyler Labarge, who owns U.S. Truck Driver Training School Inc. in Sterling Heights, is the third partner.

The company had revenue of $500,000 last year and expects to hit $1 million this year.

Jablonski said he was thinking about devoting his time fully to CDL Marketing when he got an offer from a customer in the health care industry to help run a growing urology practice. Comprehensive Urology needed someone with a business background to help the doctors run the business.

He took the offer, while continuing to work for his previous employer as a consultant and running CDL Marketing.

Jablonski worried at first that he'd answer the phone identifying himself with the wrong company, but that hasn't been a problem and neither has focusing on the strategic goals of each business.

"It's all about strategic development for both sides of it," he said. "The same principles apply on different levels."